Slack Notifications by dorzki WordPress Plugin Review

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These days, our phones are in our pockets all the time. Yes, phones as in multiple ones, is it just me?

Back to the main subject, most of the time you have your phone with you and you are out of the house doing your job and all you can think about is your precious WordPress site and what’s happening with it. Again, it’s not just me, right?

When I am out, I like to always know whenever a new plugin, theme or core update is available. Whether someone managed to log in to my account, edited something without my permission or when an article is published on schedule.

You can push all of these notifications easily to your phone and as a bonus, they can all be pushed to your Slack channel, which is what I do.

Let’s dive into this Slack Notifications by dorzki WordPress Plugin Review and learn How to integrate Slack with WordPress.

All of the things that I mentioned above can be achieved with a single plugin. A single slack webhook and all done by a single developer that goes by the name of Dor Zuberi

The plugin Slack Notifications by dorzki sends notifications from your WordPress site to your Slack channel when triggered by an action.

Here’s the full list of triggers:

System

WordPress Core Update Available?

Theme Update Available?

Plugin Update Available?

Users

User Registered

Administrator Logged In

Posts

Post Published

Post Scheduled

Post Pending

Post Updated

Pages

Page Published

Page Scheduled

Page Pending

Page Updated

Comments

New Comment

WooCommerce

New Order

Order Status: Completed

Order Status: Pending

Order Status: Processing

Order Status: On Hold

Order Status: Cancelled

Order Status: Refund

Order Status: Failed

New Order Note

Product Low Stock

Product Out of Stock

It’s really easy to setup and the plugin is ready to send notifications to your Slack channel.

Step 4

Check your Slack app on your iOS or Android device and you should have received a test notification that says:

🍕 Mmmmmmm.... Pizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzza!!!

Step 5

Go to Slack Notifications > Notifications

Click on Add New

Then open the New Notification box and choose:

Notification Type

Notification Options

Channel

Once you’re done, click on Save Notifications

That’s it.

Click on the images below to see notification examples:

Conclusion

It wasn’t that hard. Right?

Now, no matter where you are, as long as you have your phone with you, you will receive notifications from your WordPress site about the things that you normally wouldn’t know of until you sign in to your admin dashboard.

The next time there’s an urgent update for WordPress core, you will be the first to know when it’s available. And, if you followed my previous article How to Enable automatic WordPress update then you will be good to go. You should receive a secondary notification telling you that an update was made.

I, as always couldn’t help my self but to encounter a bug in the plugin’s code and I contacted Dor, the developer of the plugin. He managed to locate the bug which was an incompatibility issue with the Two-Factor WordPress Plugin and fixed it in one day.

As you can see, the plugin works, the developer is available to help you with any issue that you might encounter and it’s still in development. Actually, version 2.0 was released on 02/02/18.

So go ahead, download it and receive all the important notifications from your WordPress site right on your phone.